πλήρωμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From πληρόω (plēróō, “to fill”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma, result noun suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /plɛ̌ː.rɔː.ma/ → /ˈpli.ro.ma/ → /ˈpli.ro.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /plɛ̌ː.rɔː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈple̝.ro.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.ro.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.ro.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.ro.ma/

Noun

πλήρωμᾰ • (plḗrōma) n (genitive πληρώμᾰτος); third declension

1. that which fills, complement
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1051
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1412
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1642
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, and Places 284
   1. satiety
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 203
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 209
   2. the full number, complement, crew
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.43–45
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 664
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.4.12
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.11
      • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 155
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 162.25
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 2.7.22
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.13.3
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 371E
   3. (of number) sum
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.22
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 660
   4. a piece inserted to fill up
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 9:16
   5. (in the writings of the apostle Paul) fullness, full and perfect nature
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 11:!2
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Ephesians 3:19
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Ephesians 4:13
2. a filling up, a completing
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1213
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 824
   1. fulfillment
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 13:10

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πλήρωμᾰ; τοῦ πληρώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πλήρωμᾰ tò plḗrōma	τὼ πληρώμᾰτε tṑ plērṓmate	τᾰ̀ πληρώμᾰτᾰ tà plērṓmata
Genitive	τοῦ πληρώμᾰτος toû plērṓmatos	τοῖν πληρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn plērōmátoin	τῶν πληρωμᾰ́των tôn plērōmátōn
Dative	τῷ πληρώμᾰτῐ tôi plērṓmati	τοῖν πληρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn plērōmátoin	τοῖς πληρώμᾰσῐ / πληρώμᾰσῐν toîs plērṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πλήρωμᾰ tò plḗrōma	τὼ πληρώμᾰτε tṑ plērṓmate	τᾰ̀ πληρώμᾰτᾰ tà plērṓmata
Vocative	πλήρωμᾰ plḗrōma	πληρώμᾰτε plērṓmate	πληρώμᾰτᾰ plērṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “πλήρωμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλήρωμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πλήρωμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4138 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• πλήρωμα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • complement idem, page 152.
  • crew idem, page 184.
  • tale idem, page 854.